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Plack Vs FastCGI

I’ve been sold on Plack for a while. This clarifies a part of the reason nicely1.

If you design a fibonacci() function, would you make it print the result to STDOUT, or return the result as a return value?

(It’s referring to the PSGI spec rather than Plack, but I figure the latter needs press a bit more)

Quick thought though – if a page takes a long time to generate, the stdout technique can deliver a bit at a time. Is there a plack plugin for that, or is the answer to go for ajax these day and deliver the page outline asap?

1. Namely that printing to stdout always seemed like a horrible and inefficient hack.